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Melissa Powers

Associate Professor of Law

Melissa Powers | November 15, 2018

Designing Law to Prevent Runaway Climate Change

This post is part of a series of essays from the Environmental Law Collaborative on the theme "Environmental Law. Disrupted." It was originally published on Environmental Law Prof Blog. "Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." If that's so, our climate and energy laws have been perfectly designed to fall short. […]

Melissa Powers | October 3, 2018

The Trump Administration’s Acknowledgement of Climate Change Is Cynical — and Potentially Sinister

As Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis, and Chris Mooney of The Washington Post reported on September 27, the Trump administration seems to finally be acknowledging that climate change is real. But the motivation for recognizing that reality is cynical, at best, so rather than proposing doing something – anything – about climate change, the administration concludes […]